Former tennis champion Boris Becker has announced he is expecting his fifth child at 57 years old.
The three-time Wimbledon winner shared the news through a social media video featuring his pregnant wife Lilian, 35, tenderly holding her baby bump.
They posted the announcement with the caption: "A little miracle is on the way... the best is yet to come."
The video, set to the American gospel choir Sunday Service Choir's "Total Praise", included footage of Lilian filming herself in a bathroom mirror alongside professional photographs.
Former tennis champion Boris Becker has announced he is expecting his fifth child at 57 years old
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The pregnancy comes less than three years after Becker's release from prison, where he served eight months for bankruptcy-related offences.
Becker was sentenced at Southwark Crown Court in 2022 after being found guilty of concealing assets and loans from creditors following his bankruptcy declaration. ]
The German tennis star failed to disclose financial information as required by law.
He was released after serving eight months of his sentence. In 2024, a High Court judge formally ended his bankruptcy proceedings, ruling that Becker had done "all he reasonably can do" to satisfy his financial obligations.
The 57-year-old's legal troubles marked a dramatic fall from grace for the sporting icon, who had previously faced conviction for tax evasion and attempted tax evasion in Germany in 2002.
Becker wed Lilian, a political risk analyst holding a master's degree, in September last year in Portofino, Italy. The couple have since made their home in Milan.
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Speaking to Stern magazine, the tennis legend described the relationship as transformative.
"This is perhaps the first partnership on equal terms for me," he said. "No one is more important than the other. I need Lilian, and I hope she needs me too."
He revealed they met during his darkest period.
"I was feeling worse than ever before in my life. Despite this, Lilian was interested in me," he added.
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"That's remarkable, because she could only be interested in me as a person because I had nothing else to offer. I had never met a woman like that before."
Becker's expanding family includes four children from previous relationships with three different women.
He wed Barbara Feltus in 1993, and they had two children together - son Noah, born in 1994, and daughter Elias, arriving in 1999. The marriage ended with their separation announcement in December 2000.
Boris Becker previously met with Lilian during his darkest period
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The following year, after a High Court battle, Becker acknowledged paternity of Anna, his daughter with Russian model Angela Ermakova.
His subsequent relationship with Dutch model Sharlely 'Lilly' Kerssenberg, whom he became engaged to in 2009, produced son Amadeus in 2010.
That partnership concluded with their separation in 2018, marking the end of his third significant relationship before meeting Lilian.
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